Decision Number 542

SUBJECT TO FINAL EDITING


May 09, 1984

Decision


Neither ordination nor appointment of self-avowed practicing homosexuals is necessarily precluded by the words "fidelity in marriage and celibacy in singleness" as added to Pars. 404, 414, 420, 423, and 431 of the Discipline. The Annual Conferences have the authority to decide whether candidates for ordination meet the disciplinary requirements.

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